The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 75 105 100
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -5
Contract jobs citing CMS 44 32 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.808% 1.044% 0.958%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.25% 7.767% 6.208%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 5
Average daily rate £288 £278 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.60% +30.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £176 £225 £148
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £436 £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £285 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 6
Average hourly rate £15.50 £28.50 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.61% +46.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.85 £13.40 £17.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.20 £46.40 £36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-10.52% -2.56%
All Application Platforms
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
391 412 451
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 16.07% 13.44% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 188 152
Average daily rate £350 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 39
Average hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.70 £14.55 £16.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £38.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
CMS
South East

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CMS across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Berkshire CMS Jobs Demand Trend

CMS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CMS across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire CMS Daily Rate Trend

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Berkshire CMS Daily Rate Histogram

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CMS across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire CMS Hourly Rate Trend

CMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +29 28 £300 -34.78%
Slough -9 4 £400 -
Maidenhead -5 2 £188 -16.66%
Wokingham +1 1 £160 -40.46%
Newbury -1 1 - -
CMS
South East

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing CMS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CMS.

1 49 (59.04%) HTML
2 41 (49.40%) JavaScript
3 40 (48.19%) jQuery
4 35 (42.17%) CSS
5 26 (31.33%) Content Management
5 26 (31.33%) XML
6 19 (22.89%) Marketing
7 18 (21.69%) Dreamweaver
8 16 (19.28%) HTML5
9 15 (18.07%) .NET
10 13 (15.66%) Photoshop
10 13 (15.66%) Windows
10 13 (15.66%) ASP.NET
11 12 (14.46%) PHP
12 11 (13.25%) C#
12 11 (13.25%) Web Services
12 11 (13.25%) Adobe
12 11 (13.25%) CSS3
13 10 (12.05%) Telecoms
13 10 (12.05%) Publishing
13 10 (12.05%) Migration
14 9 (10.84%) MVC
14 9 (10.84%) Open Text
14 9 (10.84%) WebSphere
14 9 (10.84%) Web 2.0
14 9 (10.84%) Japanese Language
14 9 (10.84%) Korean Language
15 8 (9.639%) ASP.NET MVC
15 8 (9.639%) Macromedia
15 8 (9.639%) Internet

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing CMS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 49 (59.04%) HTML
2 40 (48.19%) jQuery
3 35 (42.17%) CSS
4 26 (31.33%) XML
5 16 (19.28%) HTML5
6 15 (18.07%) .NET
7 13 (15.66%) ASP.NET
8 11 (13.25%) Web Services
8 11 (13.25%) CSS3
9 9 (10.84%) WebSphere
10 8 (9.639%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (9.639%) JSP
11 4 (4.819%) Ajax
11 4 (4.819%) WCF
12 3 (3.614%) JSON
12 3 (3.614%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 3 (3.614%) Spring
12 3 (3.614%) COM
12 3 (3.614%) KnockoutJS
13 2 (2.410%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.819%) IIS
1 4 (4.819%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (3.614%) Umbraco
2 3 (3.614%) Kentico
2 3 (3.614%) Apache
2 3 (3.614%) OpenCms
2 3 (3.614%) Joomla!
3 2 (2.410%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.410%) Drupal
4 1 (1.205%) Orchard CMS
4 1 (1.205%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (1.205%) WordPress
4 1 (1.205%) Magento
4 1 (1.205%) Windows Azure
4 1 (1.205%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.205%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.205%) DotNetNuke
4 1 (1.205%) ESB
Applications
1 13 (15.66%) Photoshop
2 4 (4.819%) MS Excel
2 4 (4.819%) MS Visio
2 4 (4.819%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.205%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.639%) Internet
2 4 (4.819%) CTI
3 3 (3.614%) VoIP
3 3 (3.614%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.205%) DNS
4 1 (1.205%) SAN
4 1 (1.205%) DHCP
4 1 (1.205%) HTTP
4 1 (1.205%) Intranet
4 1 (1.205%) Symposium
4 1 (1.205%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.434%) MySQL
1 7 (8.434%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.614%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (2.410%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.410%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.205%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 18 (21.69%) Dreamweaver
2 5 (6.024%) Subversion
3 2 (2.410%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.410%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.205%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.205%) Moq
General
1 19 (22.89%) Marketing
2 10 (12.05%) Telecoms
2 10 (12.05%) Publishing
3 9 (10.84%) Japanese Language
3 9 (10.84%) Korean Language
4 7 (8.434%) Finance
5 6 (7.229%) Advertising
6 5 (6.024%) Retail
7 4 (4.819%) Games
8 2 (2.410%) Front Office
8 2 (2.410%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.205%) Back Office
9 1 (1.205%) Automotive
9 1 (1.205%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (40.96%) Developer
2 13 (15.66%) Web Developer
3 10 (12.05%) Architect
4 9 (10.84%) Web Producer
5 8 (9.639%) Web Architect
5 8 (9.639%) Project Manager
6 7 (8.434%) .NET Developer
6 7 (8.434%) PHP Developer
6 7 (8.434%) Designer
7 6 (7.229%) Programmer
8 5 (6.024%) Solutions Designer
8 5 (6.024%) Analyst
8 5 (6.024%) Content Editor
9 4 (4.819%) CMS Developer
9 4 (4.819%) Web Editor
9 4 (4.819%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.819%) Systems Designer
9 4 (4.819%) HTML Developer
10 3 (3.614%) Web Content Editor
11 2 (2.410%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Web 2.0
2 6 (7.229%) W3C
3 5 (6.024%) Digital Media
4 3 (3.614%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.614%) Open Source
4 3 (3.614%) Computer Science
4 3 (3.614%) Copywriting
5 2 (2.410%) Blackberry
5 2 (2.410%) Smartphone
5 2 (2.410%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (1.205%) Social Media
6 1 (1.205%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.205%) E-Learning
6 1 (1.205%) Blog
6 1 (1.205%) Social Network
6 1 (1.205%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.66%) Windows
2 5 (6.024%) Linux
3 2 (2.410%) Android
3 2 (2.410%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.410%) Windows 8
4 1 (1.205%) Solaris
4 1 (1.205%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (31.33%) Content Management
2 10 (12.05%) Migration
3 9 (10.84%) MVC
4 7 (8.434%) Web Development
5 6 (7.229%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (6.024%) E-Commerce
6 5 (6.024%) ITIL
6 5 (6.024%) Waterfall
7 4 (4.819%) WFM
7 4 (4.819%) SEO
7 4 (4.819%) Change Management
7 4 (4.819%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (3.614%) Project Management
8 3 (3.614%) Web Application Development
9 2 (2.410%) Email Marketing
9 2 (2.410%) Test Strategy
9 2 (2.410%) Information Architecture
9 2 (2.410%) Web Marketing
9 2 (2.410%) OOP
9 2 (2.410%) OO
Programming Languages
1 41 (49.40%) JavaScript
2 12 (14.46%) PHP
3 11 (13.25%) C#
4 8 (9.639%) Perl
5 6 (7.229%) SQL
6 4 (4.819%) Java
7 1 (1.205%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.205%) VB
7 1 (1.205%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.205%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 7 (8.434%) Degree
2 1 (1.205%) MCSD
2 1 (1.205%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.205%) Avaya Certification
2 1 (1.205%) ACSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.205%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (13.25%) Adobe
2 9 (10.84%) Open Text
3 8 (9.639%) Macromedia
4 6 (7.229%) Microsoft
5 5 (6.024%) Avaya
6 4 (4.819%) Sitecore
6 4 (4.819%) Verint
7 3 (3.614%) RedDot
8 2 (2.410%) Oracle
8 2 (2.410%) hybris
8 2 (2.410%) Sencha
9 1 (1.205%) Twitter
9 1 (1.205%) Venda
9 1 (1.205%) Ektron
9 1 (1.205%) ATG
9 1 (1.205%) Cisco
9 1 (1.205%) Nortel
9 1 (1.205%) VMware
9 1 (1.205%) Google
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